Derek Thomas
- Occupation: Professor/Minister
- Location: United States
About Me
Welsh by birth and disposition; John E. Richards Professor of Theology, RTS; Minister of Teaching, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson; Editorial Director, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals; Adjunct Professor of Historical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI; Married since 1976, to a devoted Braves fan, Rosemary.
Interests
- Collecting CDs of Classical Music;
- The Writings of John Bunyan;
- Teaching my dog 'Jake' the finer points of supralapsarianism;
- Wondering what marriage to someone who doesn't like baseball would be like;
- Answering the question
- 'What's it like to work for Ligon Duncan?' or even better
- 'Do you know Ligon Duncan?';
- Wagner;
- Bruckner;
- Mahler;
- Science Fiction;
- Talking to my granddaughter via webcam
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
- Gustav Mahler's symphonies & Das Lied von der Erde; Bruckner's Eighth Symphony; Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen; 'Im Abendrot' by Richard Strauss; the operas of Richard Strauss and Leoš Janáček;
- Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony; Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sontata;
- the symphonies of Jean Sibelius; bluegrass if manacled to a chair
Favorite Books
- Lord of the Rings; Pilgrim's Progress; Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Tempest; Poetry of George Herbert; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; The Gramophone (not really a book but a monthly magazine
- but I've read it for over 40 years!)
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson Mississippi | Donna Dobbs Ashley Hall Jeremy Smith Ligon Duncan Nate Shurden Billy Joseph |
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